When to Rob a Bank: ...And 131 More Warped Suggestions and Well-Intended Rants

by Steven D. Levitt

However, as 12a recent report from the World Preservation Foundation confirms, ignoring veganism in the fight against climate change is sort of like ignoring fast food in the fight against obesity.

It means that officials don’t consciously decide to give the home team an advantage—but rather, being social creatures (and human beings) like the rest of us, they assimilate the emotion of the home crowd and, once in a while, make a call that makes a whole lot of close-by, noisy people very happy.

It’s a lesson in opportunity cost: if you spend all your time catching the little fish, you won’t have time—or develop the technique, or the patience—to ever catch the big ones.